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“We need to normalise the discussion around male sexual abuse. If we as adults can’t talk about it freely, than how on earth do we expect children to be able to come forward and report it?”
– Ken Clearwater.
‘Failed by the system’: Indecent assault victim hits out after offenders avoid conviction
WARNING: This article references indecent assault and suicide. A Wellington man says his life has been destroyed by an indecent assault and what he sees as significant failings by the justice system. Mackenzie Skinner speaks to the Herald about the…
Survivors rejected: advocate
Southern survivors of sexual abuse are being turned away for important support at an alarming rate, leaving them devastated and re-traumatised, an advocate claims. The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has come under fire for disestablishing its Wellington-based sensitive claims unit,…
New shelter for men escaping DV opens in QLD
Sheltered By Grace is a non-government funded Charity which is an accredited, level 3 Support Accommodation service based in South East Queensland that houses Single Men over the age of 25 escaping Domestic Violence. A brochure is available at oneinthree.com.au…
Lake Alice and the legacy of abuse in state care on Māori
Advocates now calling for the Crown to do more to redress this collective loss to hapū from our “stolen generation”. For the last two weeks the public has heard testimony from survivors, witnesses and former staff who were at the Lake…
NSW inquiry into coercive control in domestic relationships claims abusive heterosexual women don’t control their partners except in rare cases
The NSW inquiry into coercive control in domestic relationships published its report this week. The report contains the following sickeningly sexist (and factually incorrect) gendered analysis of coercive control. Apparently men and lesbian women can control their partners but heterosexual women are…
US Boy Scouts reach $1.2 billion deal over sexual abuse cases
The Boy Scouts of America have reached a US$850 million (NZ$1.2 billion) agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a pivotal moment in the organisation’s bankruptcy case. The agreement filed…
Oranga Tamariki to shut Te Oranga facility after leaked video of child assault
The Oranga Tamariki care and protection residence in Christchurch where a young person was reportedly tackled and held in a headlock will be temporarily closed. The video posted this week on the Newsroom website showed a young person being surrounded…
Canada discovers 751 unmarked graves at residential school
A First Nation in Canada’s Saskatchewan province is treating a now-defunct residential school as a “crime scene” following the discovery of 751 unmarked graves just weeks after a similar discovery in British Columbia prompted a fresh reckoning over the country’s colonial past.…
Abuse in Care inquiry: Children given electric shocks lasting four minutes
People who were given electric shock treatment as a punishment while in the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s have given first-hand accounts to the Abuse in Care inquiry. The inquiry is hearing from survivors who, as children, were…
Abuse, torture and a deep state campaign of denial
It is well established that children were physically and sexually abused in state care in New Zealand over many decades. But what has always been carefully hidden is the subsequent role of the Crown in deliberately, actively suppressing and stifling…
Abuse In Childhood Raises Your Odds Of Facing Violence Later: University Of Auckland Study
Was your mother or stepmother ever slapped, hit, kicked, punched or beaten up? Did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic? Did you live with anyone who was depressed, mentally ill or suicidal? Did a parent…
Engagement on National Strategy and Action Plans to eliminate family violence and sexual violence launched
The government is inviting feedback from tangata whenua, victim-survivors, communities throughout the country, service providers and individuals. The government has launched work to develop a National Strategy and Action plans to eliminate family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa New…